1. James: picked up a grade one muscle tear to his soleus against Eibar on October, 2nd and will remain in Madrid for treatment this weekend. He's expected to come back against Legia on October, 18th though.

2. Modric: underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee for an extraction of a patellar chondral fragment of post-traumatic origin. Estimated time out: one month.

Benzema doing the two things I know Benzema is capable of i.e good finishing and lethargic movement, Kovacic looking good, Ronaldo looking good, Marcelo having a stormer, even Pepe has an assist to his name.

Well that was a storming performance. Pepe is such a beast i love him. Oh and this Isco is brilliant to watch, hope it's not a one-off. Now lets get a winning streak going and cut out these poorly defended goals. Varane was in no mans land for the goal and went up to intercept instead of staying back.

You're joking. Pepe passed it to the opposition and it got turned around and you're blaming it on.... Varane???

Pepe just missed Kroos right in the middle of the pitch. Everyone was pushing up as they didn't expect it. Varane matched up with the closest guy, which is what he's supposed to do... but Marcelo was long gone and Isco couldn't track the next man over.